Gotta
get real ballotsPaperless taking us downShould have
been done long agoKeep blacks from voting andTV
won't make a soundKerry won, but he said no.

Vote
Fraud in OhioVote Fraud in OhioVote Fraud in
Florida

On Election
Day, I asked to see Lane County's new ballot scanning
machines, made by Sequoia corporation (of England). While
watching the ballots being fed into the machines, a
Democratic Party poll watcher told me the exit polls did
not match the election results in the "swing states" using
paperless ballot machines.

There is now ample evidence
to confirm this discrepancy -- and that Senator Kerry won
the 2004 Presidential election in both the popular vote and
Electoral College. Exit polls in Ohio, Florida, Iowa, New
Mexico and Nevada predicted a Kerry win, yet Bush was
declared the winner. In several other states, the point
spread was significantly different between the polls and
the results, helping ensure that Bush was given the popular
vote. (The 2000 election fraud was embarrassing for Bush,
and claiming that millions more voted for him than for
Kerry, despite a stronger Democratic voter registration
drive, provides a veneer of legitimacy for what is about to
happen.)

The Democratic Party let this theft happen.
There was ample warning from computer experts,
investigative journalists and leaked documents that showed
how paperless voting is an invitation to vote fraud. The
head of the Diebold corporation, the most famous "touch
screen" manufacturer, had pledged to ensure that the state
of Ohio would go for Bush -- and paperless machines were
used in some of their counties.

In 2002, the Georgia
Governor and Senate races were predicted to favor the
incumbent Democrats, yet the touch screen ballot machines
determined that they lost (the first election in that state
with this technology). Bev Harris, author of "Black Box
Voting," found numerous problems that strongly suggest
these outcomes were rigged. Despite this evidence, on
October 25, National Public Radio ran a story on touch
screen machines quoting a Georgia elections official who
claimed there were no problems in their initial use.

In
the last Congressional session, a few brave leaders
introduced a bill to require paper trails for all voting
systems, but it was ignored by the Democratic leadership.
Why did the Democratic Party allow the Republicans to
install insecure computer ballots in key states -- the
Republicans wouldn't allow the Democrats to do this.

There have been numerous stories of voters using touch
screen machines who pushed Kerry but the machine tallied
Bush. Some of these voters were able to get the machine to
acknowledge their choice, others were not. There is no way
to verify that the final totals reflect the voters' choices
(no recounts are possible). Diebold makes automated teller
machines (ATMs) for banks -- if their ATMs confused
withdrawals for deposits, no bank would dare purchase their
products. How can Diebold accurately count our financial
transactions, yet is unable to accurately count votes for
Democrats?

Your vote may have been ignored, but your
dollars are counted. If everyone votes with their money to
support media institutions that investigate scandals, not
those that parrot propaganda, democracy could have a
chance.

Many states had voter intimidation problems,
some subtle, others blatant. Some of these tactics are
intentional incompetence, such as absentee ballots mailed
out too late to be received. In some Democratic strongholds
in Ohio, potential voters had to wait all day in the rain
to be able to vote, yet nearby Republican districts had
short lines since they had enough voting machines.
Republicans tried to disenfranchise African American voters
in Kansas City through fake change of address cards sent to
the Elections department. A precinct in Ohio was caught
having more votes for Bush than voters. Similar "more votes
than voters" problems were also found in other states. A
gambling referendum "passed" in a Florida county when a
bunch of votes magically appeared at the last minute. A
friend in Boulder, Colorado told me about a church in a
Democratic area that pretended to be a polling station the
day before the Election -- voters who believed their claims
of "early voting" were not counted.

These manipulations,
coupled with the fact that Kerry ran such a lousy campaign
that many Bush-haters agonized about voting for him,
ensured that the results could be fixed in advance. If
Kerry's campaign had been better, it would have been harder
to change the results.

The Democratic Party has
thousands of lawyers and $45 million in funds to challenge
vote fraud, and Senator Edwards wanted to contest the
outcome. Kerry rushed to concede before all the votes were
counted and the flood of complaints of vote fraud and
disenfranchisement were noticed. Perhaps a future historian
will uncover why Kerry surrendered. Was he threatened with
a "Wellstone plane crash"? Bribed? Or was the election a
farce to create an illusion of democracy, since Kerry and
Bush are both members of the occult Order of Skull and
Bones, and Kerry, Bush and Cheney are distant cousins?

Most industrial democracies use paper ballots, counted by
hand. This might not appeal to those with a naive fetish
for technology, but it is the most accurate vote counting
method, and the hardest to tamper with. (Optical scanning
of paper ballots can also be rigged, since the software is
a proprietary trade secret not subject to public
scrutiny.)

A deeper problem was the Democrats' "Bush
Light" strategy -- trying to replace Bush without
discussing the deeper scandals. Many Democrats proclaimed
that "Bush Lied" about Iraq, but few said why the US seized
Iraq, even though the whole world knows it was about oil.
Two thirds of the Earth's remaining oil supply is in the
Persian Gulf area, and it would be nice to have public
discussion of whether we will use it for renewable energy
systems and relocalizing production, or to have World War
IV to control what is left.

The vote fraud story risks
becoming like the evidence of US government complicity in
9/11 -- explained in detail on the internet, yet totally
ignored by the media. However, the evidence is being
assembled even faster than documentation of the 9/11
scandal, and is becoming the greatest Constitutional crisis
in our country's history. The Congressional Government
Accounting Office has been asked to investigate. Some media
voices are daring to question the outcome -- such as
actress Susan Sarandon on Bill Maher's HBO show last Friday.
Protests are happening all over the country, and the
documentation of fraud is piling up all over the web.

Cheating in the Electoral College should be grounds for
expulsion. Under the Constitution, questions of legitimacy
of a State's Electors can be debated by Congress when they
ratify the outcome. The film "Fahrenheit 9/11" shows the
effort by the Congressional Black Caucus to have a debate
on January 6, 2001, when Bush was confirmed as President
despite the fraud in Florida. It takes a Senator and a
Representative to allow this debate, but no Senator dared to
support the right of all citizens to vote.

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